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The Entropic Sublime in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49

  • Vine S
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (2011) 13(1-2) 160-177
DOI: 10.2307/41328517
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… Callisto' s dread of cultural "entropy" is the result of his metaphorical transposition of the second law of thermodynamics into "social terms" (84). Callisto imagines that the inevitable …

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Vine, S. (2011). The Entropic Sublime in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 13(1–2), 160–177. https://doi.org/10.2307/41328517

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